Who are the biggest underachievers in sport? Arguably the greatest gap between potential and achievement lies with India’s Twenty20 side
was an instant hit when it was launched seven months later, pulling in huge domestic television audiences and then both billions of dollars in broadcast revenue and appearances from the world’s best players.has since gone from strength to strength.
Given all that, what has gone wrong for India at Twenty20 World Cups? Their most recent failure, in 2021, demonstrated several interconnected problems. In both of the crucial matches that they lost, to Pakistan and New Zealand, India batted first and their opponents chased down their totals with ease, suggesting that India batted too conservatively.
This is likely to have been a function of team selection. India’s three leading batsmen, K.L. Rahul, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli, all play in a similar way. They bat for a relatively long time, but are less good at hitting boundaries regularly. This could be because all three men also play Test and one-day cricket for India, formats in which staying in is much more important.
By rights India’s Twenty20 cricketers ought to be compared to the American men’s basketball team. Both have by far the deepest playing pools, the richest domestic organisations and leagues that pull in the best players from the rest of the world. Since basketball’s global governing body allowed America to field players from the National Basketball Association, the team has won seven out of eight Olympic gold medals . India’s cricketers should be similarly dominant.
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